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Angela is free! Now we must free Ruchell and all political prisoners!
Flyer with handwritten title announcing Angela Davis' release from prison while demanding the same for Ruchell Magee. Three typed paragraphs about Ruchell, Angela's codefendent, whose trial for murder-kidnap-consipiracy is to begin on August 1. Magee was the only person to survive the attempt to escape from the Marin County Courthouse in 1970, which was led...
Article - Lexington Appeal Decision and Women Political Prisoners
Includes handwritten notes by Jane Segal. Virtual holding only.
Attica News March 28, 1975
Contents include: New Attica Trial Will Expose State Crimes; From the Belly of the Whale; KKK Repression at Napanoch; A Black Woman's Perspective; Women's Action Puts Davits on the Spot; Who is Governor Carey?; Human Beings--Not Machines; Letter From Jail- Prison Economics; Criticism of Attica Now- Support Struggle in the Courtroom
Attica Since the Massacre
Second 8-page newsletter on Attica. Attica executions, terror, continue; Oppressed bury their Attica Dead; Prison Rebellions erupt nationwide; Attica Liberation Faction Statement; Hassan of Auburn Six Speaks; Rockefeller's Other Massacre (Ludlow Colorado, 1914); Bail Fund Women Aid Imprisoned Sisters; Women Prisoners rebel in West Virginia; more.
Attica: Two Decades of Prison Resistance
Reproduction of transcript from speech given at Seton hall Law School, NJ
Awakening of a Dragon
Celebrate the Victory of Vietnam Over U.S. Imperialism; Honor Our Fallen One (Melvin Rema Kearney); Communique from the Black Liberation Army; United Nations May 30th Statement in Support of Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners; World's Largest Dope Pushers!; Doctors Are Middlemen; One Pill Can Kill; Methadone Sells Big on Street; more.
Black August Card Template — Illustration by Kevin Rashid Johnson (2024)
Black August illustration by imprisoned artist Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson, laid out as a card to print and send to political prisoners during Black August letter-writing events.
Black News - V 4-5 - February 1979
Editorial: Repression of Blacks; FBI Sued for $100 Million; and Who Really Killed Malcolm? Also- Cointelpro Continues; Assata Shakur; Political Prisoners in US; National Notes; Jitu Weusi on Cointelpro; P.O.W. Forum; Dhoruba Moore: P .O .D .W.; B.U.F.M.L.King March; Forum Exposes NCLC group; Letters to the Editor; Ethiopian Foreign Minister; I.R.S. Spys on B...
Black Pride Newsletter III
Contents: News Briefs from Pan-Afrikan / 3rd World; Reflections and Notes (Karamoko); Six Years Later (Nancy Banks); The Bicentennial: A Prisoner's Perspective (Charles Beasley); The Black Worker: 1914-1954 part II (Ben Murdock).
Brough to You by Amerikkka's "Control Units"
Reproduction of handwritten essay by prisoner.
CCR Report on Torture and Cruel Treatment of Prisoners
Comprehensive report on torture of GTMO detainees.
COINTELPRO 101 Trailer
Cointelpro 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Cointelpro refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the gov...
COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 08
FBI HQ COINTELPRO file Part 8, including memoranda authorizing Director-level disruption ops against Black Panther figures who became political prisoners (Geronimo Pratt, Huey Newton, Panther 21).
COINTELPRO Puerto Rican Groups — Part 1 of 11
FBI HQ COINTELPRO file on 'Groups Seeking Independence for Puerto Rico.' Surveillance file underlying prosecutions of Nationalist Party members and FALN/Macheteros prisoners including Oscar López Rivera.
Caleb Powers — Appeal Circular (Washington, D.C., April 1906)
Fundraising circular describing Kentucky Secretary of State Caleb Powers as 'the noted Kentucky political prisoner' in the Goebel assassination case.
Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide
This pamphlet, written by Michael "Cetewayo" Tabor, a political prisoner part of the Panther 21, deals with heroin and the issue of drug addiction, specifically its effects on the Black community of Harlem. This particular copy was reprinted by the Women's Bail Fund.
Church Committee Final Report — Book II
Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans. Lays out the FBI's domestic intelligence and disruption programs against civil rights and antiwar movements; named source for many political-prisoner wrongful-conviction claims.
Church Committee Hearings Vol. 2 — Huston Plan
Senate hearings on the Huston Plan for expanded domestic intelligence. Documents the Nixon-era plan that authorized illegal surveillance against Weather Underground, BPP, and antiwar-movement prisoners.
Church Committee Hearings Vol. 6 — Federal Bureau of Investigation
Senate hearings on FBI intelligence activities. Testimony documenting FBI operations against political prisoners (King, BPP, SDS); foundational for COINTELPRO-era PP cases.
Close Marion and Lexington Control Unit Prisons
Information on Control Unit Prisons at Marion and Lexington.
Come to the Citizen's Review Commission on the FBI!
This flyer exposes the variety of tactics used in state-sponsored repression including grand juries and imprisonment to target as well as dismantle Black Liberation, Chicano, Puerto Rican Independence, and women's movements, among others.
Coming Out of Concrete Closets - National LGBTQ Prisoner Survey
National survey of LGBTQ prisoners on conditions, abuse, and healthcare.
Compilation of Reports on Marianna Prison (prior to its opening)
Compilation of Reports about Marianna Prison before its opening. Letter (June 30, 1988) from Jan Susler to the women political prisoners who will be held in Marianna Prison regarding a conversation she had with the warden's executive assistant about the new prison, privileges and more. A report by Sue Sturtz about a tour of the prison, its layout, the visiti...
Conference Calls: What's Cooking at Marion Prison?
Reproduction of article from 10/25/1985 on the second anniversary of the Marion Lockdown.